The UCLA Department of Communication is an interdisciplinary group of scholars interested in communication at many levels of analysis, including digital and mass media, political communication, and interpersonal social interaction.

Our department offers courses on a wide range of topics in communication and related disciplines, and we have several highly active research labs. Stay tuned for exciting new developments in our degree offerings

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Associate Professor and Vice Chair

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I am a cognitive scientist interested broadly in the evolution of communication and social behavior.

My empirical interest in the voice began during my graduate training as an experimental psycholinguist with studies of how people use prosodic (i.e., pitch, loudness, and rhythm) signals to communicate indirect meanings such as verbal irony. I then completed a post doctoral fellowship in the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and specialized in cross-cultural voice perception. My research incorporates concepts and methods from cognitive psychology, speech science, biological anthropology, applied linguistics, and evolutionary biology. In my lab we do acoustic analyses of speech, perception and psychophysiology experiments, and design cross-cultural field studies.

The UCLA Department of Communication is an interdisciplinary group of scholars interested in communication at many levels of analysis, including digital and mass media, political communication, and interpersonal social interaction.

Our department offers courses on a wide range of topics in communication and related disciplines, and we have several highly active research labs. Stay tuned for exciting new developments in our degree offerings